I go to a public high school in South Eastern Massachusetts
The average SAT scores at my high school: 520M 520V
My high school sends 64% to four year colleges, 17% to two year colleges and the rest don’t pursue higher education.
So how competitive is my high school?
<p>It sounds very much average. SATs are just above national average.</p>
<p>How competitive your high school may or may not be is not really much of a factor in admissions. The colleges want you to do the best wherever you are going. They want you to take the most difficult curriculum available at your high school, and they want you to rank well compared to other students at the high school. If anything, you get more credit for scoring better on the SAT coming from an average high school than you do coming from a prestigious high school.</p>
<p>The adcoms know about different high schools because: 1) there is a regional adcom responsible for knowing the high schools in his/her geographic area, and 2) each hs sends a self-profile to every college that you apply to along with your transcript (ask your GC/Registrar for a copy)</p>
<p>There are three myths concerning high school quality. The first is that you can't get the necessary background for the extremely selective colleges unless you go to a prestigious high school. The second is that applicants from the same prestigious high school do not compete against themselves when 20-40 people apply to the same college from the same high school. The third is that a prestigious college will only take a single applicant from any single high school.</p>
<p>"How competitive your high school may or may not be is not really much of a factor in admissions."</p>
<p>Are you joking? It makes a huge difference. Getting a 1500 SAT at a school where the average SAT is 950 is ALOT more impressive than getting that 1500 at a school where the average SAT is 1350. Also, being valedictorian at a top private prep school looks much better than being the valedictorian of your average public.</p>
<p>Did you read the rest of my paragraph?</p>
<p>At any rate, why are you coming at it from that angle when you are going to an average hs. My post said that the high school you go to is not a big deal. It is what you make out of the high school.</p>